Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: In the last few days, no more than a couple of weeks, this problem has appeared: When I put the computer to ...

I’m not answering a reader question this time; just passing on some useful information. You can save power by setting up your Windows PC to go into sleep mode (called Standby in XP) after so many ...

“If you feel like sleeping more in the winter, you’re not alone,” said Dr. Raj Dasgupta, an associate professor of clinical medicine at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, told CNN.

You will need admin permission and enough knowledge to change settings in the BIOS. Windows stores the state of the computer or hibernation into a file with the name hiberfil.sys. It would be best to ...

When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. I’m not sure ...

I'm assuming you've done the requisite googling so i didn't bother. I had a look at what events i could find in .net, since i had the help open, and services are notified of all power event changes.